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by jabl 143 days ago
To comment on using direct current rather than alternating current, at least NVIDIA is working on 800VDC:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-800-v-hvdc-architec...

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/building-the-800-vdc-ecosy...

More generally, a bunch of the electrical industry heavyweights are involved in a standard for DC microgrids called Current/OS: https://currentos.org/

There are certainly advantages to DC vs AC, but there's of course a huge amount of sunken cost in contemporary AC networks.

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IIRC, Google contributed +-400 racks last year to Open Compute: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/enabling-1-mw-i...